A/N: I KNEW you guys knew that I was going to put her in Gryffindor. What I meant was is anyone surprised by anything else? Anyway…keep reading.
Disclaimer: Nothing is mine…
Chapter 9:
Lindy woke up the next morning eager to start her classes. She arose earlier than necessary and got ready. She happily tied her crimson and gold Gryffindor tie before Cindy and Ophie even flinched. (They had to wake up Ariel and Lily Jane)
"According to this schedule," Lily Jane said heading back to the commonroom after breakfast looking at the piece of paper everyone received with their belongings, "Today we have Transfiguration with Hufflepuff, then Potions with Ravenclaw, ug…then a double block of Defense Against the Dark Arts with…ew…Slytherin."
"What gave Slytherin such a bad rep anyway?" Ophelia asked after they gave the fat lady the password.
"That was the house…he was in," Cynthia answered.
"Who's he?" Ophie asked.
"You mean you've never…oh I forgot you were Muggle born," Ariel stuttered, "Voldemort, the most powerful dark wizard that ever lived."
"Hey, wait a minute…" Cindy began peering at Lily Jane, "You're Harry Potter's daughter aren't' you, Lily?"
Lily Jane smirked a little, "Yes, and please call me Lily Jane." She answered. Lindy wondered why she allowed Alan to call her Lily.
"Your father's amazing," Ariel told her. Lily Jane smiled and thanked her at that. Lindy was beginning to notice how polar opposite their lives were.
"Let's go find Alan," Lindy said, "He said he was scared to death of trying to find his way around the castle at breakfast. So I told him we'd go with him." Lily Jane nodded. Lindy had felt especially close to Alan yesterday because he was someone even more shy and confused than herself.
The two girls headed up to the boys dormitory and ran into Adam and Cole coming down the stairs. "Hey guys, where's Alan?" Lily Jane asked.
"He left already," Adam informed her.
"Huh," Lindy said as they let the boys pass them, "Okay, let's go then."
"Wait," Lily Jane said, "I forgot my map," she ran up the other stair case to the girl's dorm and came back with a long Hogwarts map.
The two girls walked down the hall and down three stair cases towards the Transfiguration room (A/N: Ironically Transfiguration was the only class where the room isn't specified in the books). They were confident by looking at the map that they knew where they were going.
"Hey! Let me go!" they heard a voice say just around the corner from them on the fifth floor, rather close to the classroom.
Lily Jane turned around. Lindy followed her around the corner, down the hall, passed the trophy box, and a Ravenclaw girl prefect who yelled "Hey!" as their walk turned into a run.
"It sounded like…," Lindy started to say until they came to the source of the cry, under a staircase. The same little annoying ghost at dinner that told them to be afraid had Alan stuck up against the wall with some kind of spell but without a wand.
"What in Merlin's name are you doing to him?" Lindy asked feeling very smart with her new found wizard lingo.
"Oh, I do this to all the first years," the ghost hissed. Lindy didn't want to feel threatened by him since he looked like a genie with colourful joker-like clothes and curled slippers, but somehow she still did.
"You must be Peeves," Lily Jane said, hands on her hips, "Let him go, you're going to make us late for class."
"As you wish Miss Potter," Peeves answered pulling back his finger and sending Alan sliding to the floor.
The others began walking again. "What was that all about?" Lindy asked.
"Peeves is a poltergeist, he can lift objects, turn himself invisible, and do other psychic things. He always does it to cause trouble. He's among the other ghosts, though he really isn't one or at least that's what my parents and Jamie told me." By now everyone was in their classes and they were the only three left in the hallway.
"Bu…" Alan began. Lily Jane seemed to slip behind them like she was sliding on oil. Lindy and the shy Muggle-born turned around swiftly just in time to see their friend elevated almost to the ceiling."
"Oh we are definitely going tot be late for class now," Lily Jane said almost with a laugh. But she wasn't laughing a few seconds later when she began spinning and flipping up and down in mid-air. Her red hair was flying around her face and her glasses fell right off and broke in half to the floor. She screamed and Alan's big blue eyes seemed to grow even bigger.
Lindy could see Peeves hiding underneath the staircase. "Put her down!" she cried.
"No need to worry Miss Malfoy, my orders were not to lay a finger on you," said Peeves swirling his finger around.
"It's Beiner!" she screamed as Alan began jumping up and down trying to reach Lily Jane, "And what orders?" Just then Lily Jane came crashing to the ground and Peeves was suddenly out of sight.
Alan ran to her and picked up her broken glasses. "Are you alright?" he asked.
"Yeah," she answered, "I didn't hit my head or anything but my glasses are doomed," she said taking them from Alan and carefully putting them in her robe pocket.
Lindy headed towards the staircase. "He's gone, Lindy!" Alan called to her.
"Orders," she whispered to herself as she stood there in mid thought.
"What?" Lily Jane asked getting up off the floor.
"Peeves said he had orders not to hurt me," Lindy said walking back to her new friends.
"I bet he also had orders to hurt us," Lily Jane. The three began walking again. "And I bet you anything it was from that awful Rubella Parkinson."
"I hate that girl already and I haven't even known her a full day," Alan said.
"If she's anything like I think she is this thing with Peeves is only a preview," Lily Jane said fiercely.
Lindy nodded as t hey came to the classroom. The door was shut so Alan knocked. A tall Hufflepuff girl opened it. "You're ten minutes late," the professor said. She had her back to the chalk board and was dressed in red robes with floral violet designs and gold trimmings topped off with a violet witch's hat with a thin gold ribbon that Lindy thought was very cool and reminded her of her childhood obsession with purple.
"We got really lost," Lily Jane lied. Lindy didn't see the harm in telling the truth but none the less kept her own mouth shut.
"I'll excuse you for today," she said turning around flipping her long brown braid her thin face was pleasant but stern. Lindy figured she was probably in her mid-thirties. "Just let me warn you, other teachers may not be as generous," she said. Lindy wondered if one of them was the man from the Leaky Cauldron.
The only three seats left in the classroom were all the way in the back. Lindy noticed that Gryffindor was on one side and Hufflepuff on the other. She wondered if it was meant to be that way or people just felt more comfortable sitting with their own house.
"Now," the teacher said as soon as they were seated. Lindy read the board it said, "Professor Bones," in the upper right hand corner. To the left it had a list that said, "Transfiguration Class Rules- 1st years. 1) Raise your hand before answering a question. 2) No magic or pets unless I say other wise. 3) Stay in the seat you are in today all year unless I move you. 4) Turn in all assignments on time- absence is the only excuse. 5) Tardiness after today is unacceptable.
"For those of you who just came in my name is Professor Bones, your Transfiguration teacher and head of Hufflepuff house. I just asked the question, what is Transfiguration? Anybody?" A blonde Hufflepuff girl sitting in the front raised her hand half-way.
"Miss Smith?" Professor Bones said pointing to her.
"Changing something into something else?" she answered like it was a question.
"Be confident," Professor Bones said harshly, "Is it or isn't it?
"It is," she said rudely.
"I want you all to be confident in your answers," the professor said ignoring her ignorant tone, "If you know it say it, and I know Miss Smith isn't the only one who did. I you are not confident you may make a mistake and in this class mistakes are rarely good."
Lindy liked Professor Bones already. After talking about the basics of Transfiguration she passed out matches to each student. "Ever since matches were invented the first thing they've taught in Transfiguration to first years is how to change them into needles."
"What's the point of that?" Lindy heard Cole whisper to Adam.
"Yah, when am I ever going to need to do that in my life?" Adam whispered back.
"It's good practice for more complex spells!" Professor Bones said loudly as if it was directed to them, "Now for the demonstration." She waved her wand and recited the spell. A few students clapped, including Lindy. "Now you try," she did the motion and repeated the spell again.
It turned out not to be as easy as Lindy had thought. She tried so many times her wrist began to hurt a small silver speck on the match was all that happened. She could tell Lily Jane was getting especially annoyed. After a while she started screaming the spell rather than saying it.
Adam and Cole looked like they were fooling around more than they were participating. "Get to work!" Professor Bones yelled at them. Adam rolled his eyes when her back was turned.
Alan (who was sitting in front of Lindy) looked to be concentrating really hard. After a few minutes he cried, "I did it!" Professor Bones smiled and clapped loudly.
"Excellent!" she cried, "Mr. Paxton is the first one done!" Lily Jane frowned a little and kept trying and failing.
Declan (sitting next to Alan) said the spell incorrectly and loudly so everyone could hear him. Instead of transforming the match caught on fire and got on Alan's sleeve. "Alan!" Lindy exclaimed. He jumped up and screamed.
Adam, Cole, and a few Hufflepuffs were cracking up. Professor Bones pushed through the gathering students and pointed her wand at Alan's sleeve. "Aquamenti!" she called and a little bit of water put the out fire out on Alan and the match. Then she looked at Declan with narrowing eyes, "Please make sure you pronounce it correctly!" she exclaimed. A few students laughed. Declan looked extremely embarrassed.
At the end of class the blonde Hufflepuff girl was the only other student able to transform the match. Professor Bones told the other kids to practice for homework and to not set anyone on fire.
The next class was Potions with the new professor. The classroom was in on of the dungeons it was a little dark, very cold, and kind of creepy. Professor Godwin had a snake-like voice that was equally creepy. In that class they just took notes on a few different types of ingredients. It was very boring.
Lunch was next. Lindy and her four friends sat with Liam, Jamie, the triplets and another Weasley cousin whose name Lindy had forgotten. Adam and Cole were impersonating Professor Godwin and nearly making themselves fall over backwards. The triplets laughed too and did their own impression.
"Ooh! Ooh!" one of the triplet boys cried, "Who am I?" he made his voice go really deep and drawling. "This class is made to be kept serious…one false move and you all die a painful excruciating death!"
"You're Snape!" Liam exclaimed.
"Not yet," Isolde said then se picked up her long, curved sweet potato off her plate and stuck it on her brother's nose. "Now you are!" Everyone sitting around them plus a few onlookers grew red with laughter.
"Is Snape the one that always wears black?" Lindy asked.
"And never smiled in his million years of life?" Liam said smiling, "That's him." Lindy was thankful that her face was red already. "He teaches Defense Against the Dark Arts. He's really tough, no EXTREMELY tough, except to the Slytherins. He heads their house and let's them slide on everything."
"Don't we have that class next?" Alan asked nervously.
"Yep," Lindy answered.
"Good luck," the Weasley cousin Lindy forgot said (Lindy was pretty sure he was in third year with the triplets), "He scares small children easily. Some get over it, some don't, and beware if you have a weak stomach the mere sight of him is frightening." (Lindy had to admit she agreed with that statement)
The older Gryffindors in that area laughed, the first years had more of a nervous smile. "Do you all know how many points we could lose if Snape heard that?" another Gryffindor boy about the triplets' age with very short brown hair and glasses asked. He was sitting away from the group, not really next to anyone.
"You and your rubbish points," the forgotten Weasley cousin said mockingly, "Nobody really cares."
The boy put on a fish-smelling expression, "Well they should. It goes in the records."
"Ooo the records," Aiden (or maybe Fritz) mocked. Everyone (but Lindy and Alan) snickered. The boy got up and stomped out of the hall.
"That's Bainbridge," Lily Jane explained, "He's such a twit."
"You guys are awful to him," Lindy said.
"Yah well if you saw the rest of his family you'd know why," Jamie said too harshly. Lindy was beginning to think he didn't like her very much.
After lunch Lindy, Lily Jane, Alan, Adam, and Cole walked to Defense Against the Dark Arts together. "He'll be easier to approach in groups," Adam said. The five of them stepped into the large classroom quietly. Snape was no where to be seen. Lindy and Lily Jane sat in the middle on the left side, Adam and Cole behind them, and Alan once again was stuck in front of them next to Declan Longbottom who was continuously trying to strike up a conversation with him.
Almost immediately after them Rubella, Alexia, and Ursula entered with sour faces. Rubella sat directly across from Lily Jane attempting to stare her down. The daughter of the famous auror gave Rubella one quick nasty look then turned away. "This is war," she whispered to Lindy.
Before she could respond to Lily Jane a loud bang came from behind them. The whole class turned around. Snape was immerging from the loft in the back of the room. His long black cape whipped behind him as he approached the front. Lindy could cut the nervous tension on the Gryffindor side of the room in half.
"In case you don't already know my name is Professor Snape and this is Defense Against the Dark Arts: Year One." His voice sounded oddly a lot like Fritz' (or Aiden's) impersonation and his black yes seemed to be staring straight at each student. He wrote his name in scraggily large letters on the board then turned to face the class. "This class must be taken seriously. Anyone who isn't serious is at risk of dying a painful excruciating death."
Adam and Cole giggled at the near exact words the Weasley triplet joked about. Snape walked over to the boys and glared at them. "You think I'm joking?" he asked fiercely.
"No, sir," Adam said. Cole shook his head too. Lindy saw some of the Slytherins smile wickedly.
"Now," Snape said walking back up to the board, "I'll start by calling roll." Lindy knew her name was first, sure enough. "Ah, Miss Beiner-Malfoy." He looked right at her, blankly, not in a mean nor sympathetic way. She looked back, biting her bottom lip.
"Here," she whispered. A few Slytherins chuckled. Professor Snape winked at her. Lily Jane scowled.
The rest of the class was very strange. They had to do a very long textbook scavenger hunt about what they were to learn that year. The long drawn out questions caused them to go flipping through the book intensively. Snape would go around the room peering over students' shoulders telling them to hurry up, mostly the Gryffindors, of course. He didn't even pay attention to Quinten Crabbe who was beginning to dose off and Alexia Zybrick who was constantly kicking Keith Damien's chair. "Nice work, Miss Beiner," he said to Lindy, "Check number seven again, Potter." Lily Jane rolled her eyes.
After a long and painful four hours the exhausted students headed out of the room. "Geez," Alan said, "I think my hand's gonna fall off."
"I didn't even finish," breathed Cole, his freckled face was even paler than usual.
"I wonder if every…" Adam began, "Merlin Lily Jane!" He cried in mid-sentence.
"What!" she screamed.
"Behind you!" Adam exclaimed. Lindy turned around and saw nothing but Rubella with a satisfied look in her eyes and all the other students in the hall cracking up, pointing, and/or gasping.
"Your robes Lily!" Alan gasped. Sure enough, Lily Jane's school uniform was slowly disintegrating from the bottom up. She sped through the halls like a jet, Lindy and the boys ran behind her. By the time they reached the Gryffindor tower her skirt and half her jacket was completely gone. Cole seemed to be looking down at the floor and almost bumped into a wall. Alan was nowhere to be seen by the time they got into the commonroom. Lily Jane was able to run up to the girl's corridor before all she had left on was her shirt.
"That big fat git!" Adam screamed so all the Gryffindors heard him. Lindy could tell he was trying very hard not to swear.
"You mean that Parkinson girl?" Isolde asked. She was standing near an armchair next to the biggest window. Aiden (or Fritz) was throwing a ball up and down and catching it. Fritz (or whomever) was sitting on the floor with Sebastian (his name dawned on Lindy in the middle of searching for the location of most zombies) playing a game of chess that had a few other students watching them. Lindy wasn't surprised to see Fritz' queen get up and smash Sebastian's castle.
"Yah, her," Alan sneered coming up behind Lindy all of a sudden.
"We heard she put vanishing acid on her robes," the triplet with ball said, "Bloody amateur."
"Wait! Do you know how to prank her back?" Lindy asked. Everyone around them laughed but her and Alan (she seemed to be experiencing that a lot that day).
"Do they know!" Liam cried, "They're Hogwarts pranking legends!"
"Of course, we'll never be as good as dad and Uncle George but we have our resources," the triplet playing chess said. He then looked back done at the board to see his king getting smashed by Sebastian's bishop. His mouth fell open, "WHAT!"
"Check mate!" Sebastian announced triumphantly getting up to do a victory dance and cheering. Everyone clapped.
"That's wizard's chess," Adam said, "Sebastian's good but no one can beat Uncle Ron, he's the master."
"Someday…" Sebastian said mysteriously, "And I will be the master…muhaha!" A group of girls giggled.
"He's a stud,"Liam whispered in Lindy's ear. She laughed and blushed, Sebastian was handsome, but he was nothing next to him in her eyes.
"Yeah…" Isolde said, "Back to the important stuff. I know exactly how to get this girl back." She gave an even bigger evil laugh than Sebastian. At that moment Lily Jane was coming down the stairs in new robes. A smile spread across her face.
A/N: So, next chapter you'll begin to find out why it's called the Secret Scroll and a few other stuff…R&R!